OBJECTIVE PHYSICAL FUNCTION AND MENTAL HEALTH-RELATED OUTCOMES IN OLDER PRISONERS

Health-related Physical Fitness in Children with Mental Retardation

Human health is highly dependent on the condition of health-related physical fitness and particularly body composition. Adolescence is unique in this regard, especially when the adolescents are mentally retarded, about whom information on physical fitness is limited. Thus, the objective of this paper was to study the components of health-related physical fitness with emphasis on body composit...

Older Prisoners and the Physical Health Effects of Solitary Confinement.

Mental health status and resilience of female prisoners with an interventional role of physical activity

Imprisoned people have usually a poor health status in comparison with the general population. The aim is to exploring. The current study is an applied research and aimed to exploring the relationship between mental health and resilience of 99 women prisoners who participated in recreational sport classes. The data were collected through goldberg's general health questionnaire, with reliability...

Older men and older women remand prisoners: mental illness, physical illness, offending patterns and needs

BACKGROUND Older prisoners are the fastest growing group of prisoners in most countries. They have high rates of physical and psychiatric co-morbidity, compared to community dwelling older persons and also compared with other prisoner groups. Very high rates of mental illness have been found in remand (pre-trial) prisoners when compared with other prisoner groups; however to date there have bee...

Physical and mental health-related correlates of physical function in community dwelling older adults: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND Physical function is the ability to perform both basic and instrumental activities of daily living, and the ability of older adults to reside in the community depends to a large extent on their level of physical function. Multiple physical and health-related variables may differentially affect physical function, but they have not been well characterized. The purpose of this investiga...